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Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

As the Sr. VP of Product Strategy, I lead the conception and design of AvePoint software solutions with a focus on product market-fit and optimal customer value. My connection to the needs of the market is driven through a strong engagement with AvePoint's largest and most complex customers. I help consult on strategic adoption of new and disruptive technologies, and advise organizations on how to achieve their productivity and governance goals through an effective use of technology.

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Oversee product portfolio roadmap and vision. Manage team of Product Managers and Analysts. Meet with organizations and partners to better understand business needs and new product features/opportunities. Evangelize AvePoint products and SharePoint governance and compliance best practices at speaking engagements, conferences, webinars and training sessions. Drive sales and adoption of AvePoint software through pre-sales consultation and solutions architecture as well as field team and partner enablement.

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Responsible for helping employees, customers and partners understand the value and use of AvePoint's SharePoint infrastructure management and governance solutions.

As CTO of AvePoint's Public Sector organization I am responsible for designing the optimal technology strategy for AvePoint's public sector business and ensuring the proper execution of that strategy through sales, technical and marketing teams. To ensure that strategy is always aligned with the specific needs of the public sector market, I spend significant time engaging directly with our current and future customers to understand their mission, goals and concerns.

New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for the direction and oversight of all delivery related departments (Operations, Training, Technical Training and Information Services), including operational process and workflow design, product strategy and internal training design.• Consult with Business and Technical decision makers to assess current and future needs and design appropriate training solutions.• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing departments to refine Sales and marketing strategies and enhance the skills of all Account Executives.• Plan and keynote at marketing events designed for business and technical decision makers to build awareness and understanding of how to use new technologies to meet business issues/challenges.• Liaison between the Sales department and all delivery related departments within New Horizons. • Research new technology to enable more effective business processes and oversee the procurement, implementation and support of those technologies.• Acted as primary contact with Microsoft for the Certified Partner for Learning Solutions (CPLS) program as well as numerous training initiatives.• Directed and expanded the Career Training department, increasing the company’s revenue generated from self-paying students.

• Responsible for building and maintaining a sales team.• Conducted regular hiring seminars and sales training sessions to recruit, hire, and build new Account Executives• Designed and delivered a “consultative selling” training program for new account executives as well as ongoing training programs for existing account executives.• Built 2 new Senior Account Executives (each over $360K in commissionable collections for the year) and maintained a team of 5.• Attend client site meetings to assess needs and design New Horizons training solutions.

• Responsible for company’s entire IT infrastructure, including 300 classroom PC’s and 40 user administrative network. Acted as the main decision maker for all IT equipment purchases, main contact for all service providers, and sole architect of companies IT policies and procedures.• Planned and executed 3 major desktop rollouts to admin network and 2 major back office conversions.• Played a central role in the opening of a new company site in Parsippany, NJ (May ’00), including soliciting, evaluating and awarding bids for all outside contractors.• Responsible for recruiting, hiring, and training all company PC technicians.• In addition to assuming responsibility for all company IT related issues, also directed the company’s 22 member Training Department, overseeing the Desktop Applications Training Manager and directly managing the Technical Training department (5-6 MCSE’s/MCT’s).• Acted as company’s main liaison with Microsoft, Lotus, Corel, Sylvan Prometric, and other vendors for which company holds authorizations.• Responsible for conducting company-wide educational presentations covering new developments in technology and their relevance to the company’s business.• Designed and implemented a new structure for the Training Department which saw the division of applications and technical instructors into 2 distinct departments.• Responsible for the development of all technical instructors, including planning their certification tracks and evaluating their classroom performance.• Coordinated with Applications Training Manager to hire, train, develop and counsel new instructors, resulting in many in being promoted and low staff turnover.

• Responsible for the hiring, management and development of Desktop Applications and Technical Trainers.• Developed many new company software solutions which went on to become foundations of company’s day to day business processes.

• Responsible for prepping and teaching desktop application software to adult students. Courses taught covered all major types of applications including MS Office, Lotus SmartSuite, Lotus Notes, etc.

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